Feedback Loops and Fog Machines: LA’s Best Darkwave, Techno, and Noise Rock This Week

Los Angeles is surrendering to the gloom this week, trading sunny pop for the heavy textures of shoegaze, dream pop, and abrasive noise rock. The descent begins at The Virgil on June 2nd, where a triple-threat of local heavyweights—cigarettes for breakfast, supergloom, and saline—will coat the room in dense layers of fuzzy distortion and melancholic melodies. If you prefer your guitars jagged and your vocals snarled, skip the mainstream fluff on June 4th and head to The Echo. There, the noise rock and egg punk fury of Molly Horses and Guck will collide in a sweat-soaked display of post-punk volatility that feels brilliantly unhinged.